Study on the monopoly position of global and regional Associations of Local Authorities

The specific objective was to demonstrate which global and regional Associations of Local

Authorities hold a de facto or de jure monopoly on the basis of which DG DEVCO will be able to sign the second generation of Framework Partnerships Agreements for the period of 2021-2027.

In the realm of this assignment, regional and global Associations of Local Authorities have to be understood as membership-based umbrella organisations centered around representativeness operating at sub-national, national, sub-continental, continental and international level. In particular, for the purpose of this study, ALAs were:

•  actor-based: “Actor-based” umbrella organisations are understood as structures that gather the family of actors, in this case Local Authorities and their Associations, excluding other types of actors; and
•  non-thematic: Non-thematic organisations focus on general development issues such as , inter alia, development effectiveness, capacity building of development actors, creation of an enabling environment for LAs. Non-thematic organisations can be understood as opposed to organisations that focus on particular policy domains and thematic fields such as, inter alia, climate change, education, health, migration.